Yemeni Girl Pleads With US: “Stop Selling Weapons To Saudis”

A 10-year-old Yemeni girl has made an emotional plea to the U.S. government to end violence in Yemen by ceasing its support of Saudi Arabia.  Yara Al-Mutawakel, who lives in the besieged Yemeni capital, Sanaa, says she has the constant fear of death hanging over her due to the the Saudi regime’s constant attacks. “I used to feel safe, safe with my family, and we felt freedom. But in these days we stay at home, we’re afraid that we go to a place and they bomb it, we’re always scared,” Yara told Russia Today. Rt.com reports: “We never stop thinking of death,” she adds, saying that at the sound of the airstrikes that have been the background noise in and around Sanaa for the past 18 months she thinks she’ll be their next target. “Any innocent child in Yemen could be the [next] victim. Yemeni people and children can’t [feel] freedom anymore at all,” Yara says. The conflict in Yara’s homeland has been raging for over a year and a half and has been worsened by often indiscriminate airstrikes conducted by the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi rebel forces. The Saudis and their allies are trying to restore the Riyadh-backed government of the exiled [...]

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